Whirlpools occur when fast-moving and slow-moving tides collide. The Naruto Strait is an ideal location for this phenomenon, ...

People in Japan commemorated the 30th anniversary of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, which claimed over 6,400 lives.

The western Japan city of Kobe and nearby areas on Friday marked the 30th anniversary of the magnitude-7.3 earthquake that ...

The western Japan city of Kobe and nearby areas on Friday marked the 30th anniversary of the magnitude 7.3 earthquake that ...

AKASHI, Hyogo Prefecture--A local planetarium damaged ... The planetarium, the oldest in Japan, stands on the meridian of 135 degrees east longitude, which establishes Japan Standard Time.

A now 88-year-old man who narrowly survived the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake that devastated this west Japan city still ...

KOBE: Thousands of people marked on Friday (Jan 17) the 30th anniversary of an earthquake that claimed more than 6,400 lives ...

Thousands of people marked on Friday the 30th anniversary of an earthquake that claimed more than 6,400 lives and levelled ...

A jockey in his 40s died after racehorses crashed during training in the western Japanese prefecture of Hyogo on Monday local media reported A raceh ...

Friday will mark 30 years since the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake struck western Japan. Local governments in the region, including Kobe City, are still under a heavy financial burden from the quake ...

She was 116. Yoshitsugu Nagata, an official in charge of elderly policies, said Itooka died Dec. 29 at a care home in Ashiya, ...